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GE Transportation isn’t required to begin selling new Tier 4 locomotives, the lowest emission locomotives ever built, until Jan. 1. But five of the same engines that will power those locomotives have been delivered to a customer for use in a marine application. Cummins, which operates an engine plant of its own in Jamestown, N.Y.,…

Scott Duke, president of Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America at GE Transportation, said he met only once and for about 15 minutes with Lorenzo Simonelli, the company’s previous chief executive. Duke, who spoke with Simonelli after protesting outside GE Transportation’s headquarters in Chicago, said he met today with…

Union workers at GE Transportation plan to rally Saturday in honor of workers facing layoff at the Lawrence Park plant and another 200 workers expected to lose their jobs at a GE plant in Fort Edward, N.Y. Saturday’s rally, to be held outside the company’s Water Street gate, is scheduled for 1 to 4:30 p.m….

Lorenzo Simonelli, who has led GE Transportation since July 2008, has been named president of and chief executive of GE Oil and Gas. He will be replaced by 42-year-old Russell Stokes, a 16-year GE veteran, who worked most recently as vice president of global services at GE Transportation. Before that, he was general manager for…

Scott Duke, president of UE Local 506, is set to meet at noon with officials at GE Transportation to discuss a forthcoming Worker Adjustment and Training Notification, more commonly known as a W.A.R.N. notice. Such notices are required when a company plans to announce a large-scale layoff of 50 people or more. Duke had said…

GE Transportation continues to say only that its plans to lay off 950 union employees could begin as early as October and will take place over the next two years. But details are likely to come Wednesday in the form of a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, often called a W.A.R.N. notice, according to a…

The wounds of Sept. 11 were still fresh in October 2001, when International Paper announced that it would close its Erie plant, eliminating 760 jobs. In those desperate, early days it seemed like Erie might never recover. And it never has — not if manufacturing jobs are the measure of our success. At the time…

GE Transportation, Erie County’s largest employer, continued to pull its weight in the second quarter of this year, posting a profit of $313 million, up 11 percent from the second quarter of 2012. Results from the quarter that ended June 30 mark a continuation of strong profits in the first quarter. According to numbers reported…

GE Transportation will supply engines, computer controls and traction control systems for 13 new locomotives ordered by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The $70 million contract for the passenger locomotives has been awarded to Motive Power, a unit of Wabtec Corp., which has contracted with GE Transportation in the past to provide key components for…

The decision appears to be final. Four days after negotiations ended Saturday between GE Transportation and Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, the company confirmed this morning that it will move ahead with plans to transfer a large amount of work from the Erie plant to the company’s new facility in…